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Article: The St. Martin's Bibliography of Business and Technical Communication.
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- Technical Communication
- Article date:
- November 1, 1997
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As writing professionals, we can measure our progress, develop a better understanding of what works best, and determine how to proceed by looking at where we're at and how we got here. The St. Martin's bibliography of business and technical communication, by Gerald J. Alred, makes that an easy task. It traces the history and development of technical and business writing from the early 1900s through the mid-1990s, focusing on relevant issues and solutions that emerged along the way.
Publication of the second edition of The Bedford bibliography for teachers of writing (the current edition is the fourth [New York, NY: St. Martin's Press, 1996]) drew Alred's attention to ...